Platform · Pillar 6

Accountable Government and Responsible Financial Foresight

Accountability is not a slogan. It is a set of specific practices — and a mayor who reports publicly on whether commitments were kept.

HousingGrowth PlanningInfrastructureLocal EconomyCommunityAccountability
Transparency

Specific. Measurable. Time-Bound. Public.

Residents in Centre Wellington have watched a short-term rental bylaw be deferred three times in four years. They have waited for an Affordable Housing Strategy promised in 2025 that was never adopted. They deserve a mayor who makes specific, measurable, time-bound commitments — and who reports publicly on whether those commitments were kept.

  • Quarterly Housing Dashboard — tracking units approved, under construction, and completed, broken down by type: rental, ownership, affordable, ARU. Published publicly.
  • Annual State of Centre Wellington Report — presented at a public open house. Housing, infrastructure, finances, and environment. Real Q&A with the mayor and councillors.
  • Full disclosure of the Affordable Housing Reserve Fund — how it is established and how it is spent.
  • Plain-language budget summaries — no jargon, actual comparisons to prior years, clear explanations of tax impacts.
  • Two town halls per year in each ward — not information sessions, but genuine Q&A.
Honesty about the role

What a Mayor Can and Cannot Do

Neil Dunsmore will not promise things a mayor cannot legally do. The mayor is one vote on a seven-member council. Some issues are county jurisdiction. Some require provincial partnership. Residents deserve an honest accounting of what a mayor can deliver directly, what requires council alignment, and what requires other orders of government.

"I will be clear about what is municipal responsibility, what is county responsibility, and what requires provincial or federal partnership. Residents deserve real talk about where we are now and how we get where we need to go."

Financial Foresight

Commitments

See the Deferral Record →

"In 2022, I was right about where this community was heading. Four years later, the problems are larger and better documented. The township's own consultants have now confirmed what residents have been living. I'm asking for the chance to finish the work."

— Neil Dunsmore

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